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A porTrait of Dr. James Tyson, emeritus 
professor of medicine, painted by Mr. Hugh 
H. Breckenridge, has been presented to the 
University of Pennsylvania. 
Dr. WitHELM Wuownpt, professor of philos- 
ophy at Leipzig, has been made a knight of 
the Prussian order “pour le mérite.” 
Lizut.-CotoneL D. Prat, F.R.S., director 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, has 
been elected a foreign member of the Royal 
Swedish Academy of Sciences, to fill the va- 
cancy left by the death of Sir Joseph Hooker. 
Dr. R. Ruepemany, assistant state paleon- 
tologist of New York, has been elected a mem- 
ber of the Academy of Sciences at Halle. 
M. Louis pE Launay, professor of applied 
geology in the Paris School of Mines, has been 
elected a member of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences. 
Dr. KrtiMMet, professor of geography at 
Marburg, has been elected an honorary mem- 
ber of the Geological Society of Frankfort. 
Dr. THEo. B. Comstock has resigned as 
secretary and chief engineer of the Board of 
Public Utilities of Los Angeles. 
At the end of the current year Professor 
Frank Fanning Jewett will retire under the 
Carnegie Foundation from the headship of 
the department of chemistry of Oberlin Col- 
lege after thirty-two years of active service. 
Professor Jewett received the A.B. from 
Yale in 1870, followed by the A.M. in 1873. 
He then studied at Géttingen and the Uni- 
versity of Berlin. His first teaching appoint- 
ment was that of assistant to Dr. Wolcott 
Gibbs at Harvard in 1876. The next four 
years were spent as professor of chemistry in 
the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan. 
He was then called to head the department at 
Oberlin. 
Tue eight men who have influenced Wis- 
consin agriculture most are in the order 
named: Professor W. A. Henry, Professor 
Stephen M. Babcock, ex-Governor W. D. 
Hoard, Hiram Smith, Professor R. A. Moore, 
Dean H. L. Russell, Professor F. H. King and 
George McKerrow, according to the articles 
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ism in the University of Wisconsin. 
Mr. F. G. Fiec, formerly first assistant at 
the Colonial Observatory, Hongkong, has 
been appointed director of the Mauritius Ob- 
servatory. 
Proressor AuG. Cramer, of Gottingen, has 
been appointed the successor of Professor 
Ziehen, as director of the psychiatric clinic of 
the University of Berlin. 
Dr. Finceruine, of the Agricultural School 
at Hohenheim, has been elected director of 
the Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Mockern. 
Mr. Setskar M. Gunn, assistant professor 
in the department of biology and public health 
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
has become the editor of the Journal of the 
American Public Health Association, succeed- 
ing Dr. Burt R. Rickards. 
Dr. Water S. Tower, of the University of 
Chicago, sailed from New York, on March 20, 
for South America, where he intends to spend 
six months studying the economic geography 
of Argentina, Chile and southern Brazil. 
At the summer session of the Venice Marine 
Biological Station of the University of South- 
ern California from June 24 to August 2, Pro- 
fessor Charles L. Edwards will give a course of 
lectures upon marine biology and direct the 
work in the laboratory and upon the motor 
sloop Anton Dohrn. 
Dr. Witper D. Bancrort, professor of phys- 
ical chemistry at Cornell University, lectured 
before the Columbia University Biochemical 
Association on March 15. His subject was 
“The Study of Environment.” 
Av the annual meeting of the Columbia 
Chapter of Sigma Xi, Professor Wm. J. Gies, 
gave an address on the chemistry of digestion. 
Proressor W. K. Hart, of Purdue Univer- 
sity, delivered an exchange lecture before the 
students and faculty of the College of Engi- 
neering of the University of Illinois, March 
6, on “Timber Preservation.” He also gave 
an address before the freshmen of the College 
on “ Mountain Railways.” 
